French soldiers sit and stand in a field with their artillery and horses during World War I. One of two soldiers in the foreground appears to be taking his left shoe off, or putting it on, and the other is reaching into a bag or kit.

Six soldiers work intently at a table under a canvas awning in a support trench during World War I. Five are smoking pipes and they appear to be working on weapon parts or other instruments. They are believed to be members of France's 34e Colonial...

Soldiers repair, or conduct standard maintenance on, a machine gun in a rock-lined support trench during World War I. The soldiers are believed to be members of France's 34e Colonial Regiment stationed near Monastir in the Balkans in 1917-1919.

Three soldiers in a support trench work to repair or maintain weapons during World War I. Two sit under a canvas awning in the rock-lined trench. They are believed to be members of France's 34e Colonial Regiment stationed near Monastir in the...

Six soldiers work intently at a table under a canvas awning in a support trench during World War I. Five are smoking pipes and appear to be working on weapon parts or other types of instruments. They are believed to be members of France's 34e...

Woodblock prints of, clockwise from top left: cows drinking from stream by mill; man on horse talking to man standing by fence with shovel; men on horseback passing through jungle populated by snakes, monkeys, birds, and leopards; number 10; child...

"Images of barbarians, an essential element of triumphal ceremony in imperial Rome, were most often represented in a military context. […] [S]uch representations are omnipresent in Trajan's Forum, on the façade of the Ulpia Basilica, and...

"This enormous, collage-like painting is crammed with anti-American allusions. An electric chair sits on the plinth at the top center (the Rosenbergs were electrocuted as Russian spies in 1953). A GI nonchalantly reads a pornographic magazine....

This mosaic "decorated the vertical bar of the T-form figured composition of the dining room floor to which the mosaic of Pasiphae and Daedalus belonged. The thick swastika-meander band in perspective at the top was the partition between the...

"This mosaic decorated the bottom of a shallow pool […]. The hole at its center belonged to a water jet. […] Its border consists of a band of twisted ribbon between plain bands. The emblema shows one of the popular episodes related to the...

"In the center Achilles, still in a girl's clothes, is shown advancing to his left about to rush in the direction from which the sound of the trumpet comes. He is represented as a beautiful youth with red hair, his face bearing a feminine...

"In a border of inverted rows of stepped pyramids (omitted in the picture) one of the most popular episodes of Greek mythology, the rescue of Andromeda by Perseus, is represented. […] To the right, identified by an inscription in Greek,...